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You have been fabricating lies about ARDA

It has nothing to do with the Christian Encyclopedia. Straight from the About Me page: https://thearda.com/about/about-the-arda

Association of Religion Data Archives (ARDA) strives to democratize access to the best data on religion. Founded as the American Religion Data Archive in 1997 and going online in 1998, the initial archive was targeted at researchers interested in American religion. The targeted audience and the data collection have both greatly expanded since 1998, now including American and international collections submitted by the foremost religion scholars and research centers in the world. The ARDA is generously supported by the Lilly Endowment, the John Templeton Foundation, Chapman University, Pennsylvania State University and Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis.

ARDA Advisory Board: Renata Curty (UC Santa Barbara), Joel Herndon (Duke University), Nathaniel Porter (Virginia Tech), Ruth Tillman (Pennsylvania State University), Andrew Tyner (Center for Open Science)

ARDA Affiliates: US Religion Census, Baylor Univeristy, World Religion Database at Boston University, which is part of Brill publishing: https://www.worldreligiondatabase.org/

NOW, take back every baseless fabrication you have made on Wikipedia about a top reliable source. Foorgood (talk) 16:24, 28 October 2022 (UTC)

Please refrain from replacing census data with ARDA data. ARDA does not contain census data. Their data and projections are from the World Christian Database/World Religion Database, which is produced by the Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary (as specified here). They are primary data from a Christian organisation, not from statisticians. This matter has been already discussed before. See, for instance, here.

Do you have a WP:COI on these matters or are you related to the other users who have lately been pushing ARDA data throughout Wikipedia? Æo (talk) 19:33, 28 October 2022 (UTC)

Pinging Erp to let her know about this umpteenth discussion about the matter.--Æo (talk) 19:35, 28 October 2022 (UTC)

Excuse me did you not read the ARDA about me page they have NOTHING to do with "Christian Database" or "Theological Seminary" you are fabricating that out of thin air. https://thearda.com/about/about-the-arda

This is from their about me page: The ARDA is generously supported by the Lilly Endowment, the John Templeton Foundation, Chapman University, Pennsylvania State University and Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis.

ARDA Advisory Board: Renata Curty (UC Santa Barbara), Joel Herndon (Duke University), Nathaniel Porter (Virginia Tech), Ruth Tillman (Pennsylvania State University), Andrew Tyner (Center for Open Science)

ARDA Affiliates: US Religion Census, Baylor University, World Religion Database at Boston University which is part of Brill publishing.

Foorgood (talk) 20:01, 28 October 2022 (UTC)

Liedhegener; Odermatt & Hsu; Reynolds; Hackett; Gibbon about WRD/WCD/WCE

Dear Forgood,

Yes, I read ARDA presentation page. Those listed are their sponsors (i.e. those who finance the ARDA, and I prefer not no express my [and others'] opinion about some of them). As for their data (and projections; note that most of their data are actually projections, i.e. speculations based on mathematical calculations, not the results of actual surveys), they are all from the World Religion Database, which is fundamentally the same as the World Christian Database, or, better to say, an outgrowth of the latter. They are both a continuation of the World Christian Encyclopedia and are edited by the very same team, which is ultimately related to the Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary.

Please note the criticism expressed by the following academic papers about the WRD/WCD, regarding their common origin in the WCE as a missionary tool, their systematic overestimate of Christianity while underestimating other forms of religion, and their favouring certain Christian denominations (Protestant ones) over others:

• Liedhegener A.; Odermatt A. (2013). Religious Affiliation in Europe - an Empirical Approach. The "Swiss Metadatabase of Religious Affiliation in Europe (SMRE)", Zentrum für Religion, Wirtschaft und Politik (ZRWP), Universität Luzern, doi:10.13140/RG.2.2.33430.55364

• p. 9: "...the World Christian Database (WCD) or the World Religion Database (WRD) which is a direct offspring of the WCD. ... In itself the latter is not an unproblematic source, because its data, gathered originally from the World Christian Encyclopedia, result mostly from country reports prepared by American missionaries. Therefore, a systematic bias of its data in favor of Christianity is a major, although controversial point of criticism".

• Hsu, Becky; Reynolds, Amy; Hackett, Conrad; Gibbon, James (2008). "Estimating the Religious Composition of All Nations: An Empirical Assessment of the World Christian Database". Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion. 47 (4): 691–692. doi:10.1111/j.1468-5906.2008.00435.x

• p. 679: ... The main criticisms scholars have directed at the WCD concern the estimation and categorization of certain religious populations. There are questions about whether religious composition within countries is skewed by the overcounting of certain groups or variance in quality of information obtained on different religious groups. There is also concern about possible bias because the WCE was originally developed as a Christian missionary tool. Some of the country descriptions in the WCE have been characterized as having an anti-Catholic and pro-Protestant orientation (McClymond 2002:881), and Martin describes the WCE as a work "dedicated to the conversion of mankind" (1990:293). Criticisms have also been raised about projections for different religious groups and demographic trends, as the WCD provides empirical data for the population of religious groups well into the future. Doubts have been raised about the WCD's estimation and categorization of new religious groups. Steenbrink (1998) criticizes the 1982 WCE data for Indonesia, which suggest the population is only 43.2 percent Muslim and 36.4 percent "new religionist." Steenbrink maintains that those classified as "new religionists" should actually be classified as Muslim, even if stricter Islamic groups might disagree. Lewis (2004) observes that the Soka Gakkai, Rissho Kosei Kai, and Nichiren Shoshu in the Japanese Buddhist tradition are classified as new religions, whereas Pentecostals (a much more recent movement) are classified as Christian rather than a new religion. The size of Christian populations is also debated. Jenkins (2002) notes a large gap between the reported size of India's Christian population in the government census and in the WCE/WCD. While he admits that census figures omit many Scheduled Caste adherents who can lose government benefits by declaring Christian identity, he suspects the WCD overcounts Christians in India. The WCE has also been criticized for including "inadequate and confusing" categories of Christian religious groups, in particular, "Great Commission Christians," "Latent Christians," "Non-baptized believers in Christ," and "Crypto-Christians" (Anderson 2002:129). Some worry that it is difficult to distinguish Christians who keep their faith secret from Christians who practice an indigenized form of Christianity that incorporates elements of non-Christian religions. McClymond writes that estimates for the "non-baptized believers in Christ" or "non-Christian believers in Christ" in India who are Buddhist and Muslim "seem to be largely anecdotal" (2002:886). Estimates of adherents in the United States have also been challenged. Noll has questioned the designation and size of certain Christian categories, for which the WCD and WCE provide the most detail. Although he finds estimates for most Christian denominations agree with other sources, he notes that "Great Commission Christians"—a category used to describe those actively involved in Christian expansion—are estimated in the United States and Europe to be a much larger group than the number of Christians who weekly attend church (2002:451). Another cause for concern is the number of "independents," a muddled category including African-American, "community," and "Bible" churches. Changes in the data set also raise issues about categories: Anderson notes that groups previously labeled as Protestant in the first edition of the WCE in 1982 (Conservative Baptist Association of America, the Orthodox Presbyterian Church, and the Presbyterian Church in America) were relabeled Independent in the second edition published in 2001 (Anderson 2002). Some have argued that projections of religious composition for years such as 2025 and 2050 should not be included with the empirical data, as they are merely conjecture (McClymond 2002). Irvin (2005) argues against making predictions about the future of worldwide religion based on recent statistics because Christian growth in Asia and Africa will not necessarily continue along the trajectory it has in past decades. ....
• p. 680: ... To address the criticisms mentioned above, we compare the religious composition estimates in the WCD to four other cross-national data sets on religious composition (two survey-based data sets and two government-sponsored data sets): the World Values Survey (WVS), the Pew Global Attitudes Project (Pew), the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), and the U.S. State Department (State Department). In our analysis, we find support for some of the criticisms made by reviewers ... the WCD does have higher estimates of percent Christian within countries. Another important difference between the WCD and other cross-national data sets is that the WCD includes data on 18 different religious groups for each country while other data sets only estimate the size of major religions. In evaluating some of the specific critiques discussed above, we find that WCD estimates of American Christian groups are generally higher than those based on surveys and denominational statistics. ... The majority of data came from fieldwork, unpublished reports, and private communications from contributors who are a mix of clergy, academics, and others; the Christian origins of the encyclopedia explain in part its detailed information on Christian groups. ....
• p. 684: ... Figure 1 shows that the WCD tends to overestimate percent Christian relative to the other data sets. Scatterplots show that the majority of the points lie above the y x line, indicating the WCD estimate for percent Christian within countries is generally higher than the other estimates. Although the bias is slight, it is consistent, and consequently, the WCD estimates a higher ratio of Christians in the world. This suggests that while the percentage Christian estimates are closely related among the data sets, the tendency is for them to be slightly higher in the WCD. ... On the other hand, the WCD likely underestimates percent Muslim in former Communist countries and countries with popular syncretistic and traditional religions..
• p. 692: ... We find some evidence for the three main criticisms directed at the WCD regarding estimation, ambiguous religious categories, and bias. The WCD consistently gives a higher estimate for percent Christian in comparison to other cross-national data sets. ... We also found evidence of overestimation when we compared WCD data on American denominational adherence to American survey data such as ARIS, due in part to inclusion of children, and perhaps also to uncritical acceptance of estimates from religious institutions. We agree with reviewers that some of the WCD's religious categories are impossible to measure accurately, such as "Great Commission Christians," "latent Christians," and "Crypto-Christians." ....

--Æo (talk) 20:39, 28 October 2022 (UTC)

The opinions about the World Christian Database affiliated with Gordon Theological Seminary I can agree with but the World Religion Database is affiliated with Boston University and published by Brill which is a top reliable source NOT the seminary. The bottom line is that ARDA is completely SEPARATE from both of them because ARDA is part of Penn State University as noted here https://thearda.com/about/faqs#q1. They have the same independence and reliability as PEW. Foorgood (talk) 20:51, 28 October 2022 (UTC)

The ARDA is entirely based on data and projections of the WRD (which, as demonstrated hereinabove, is the very same as the WCD/WCE): e.g. Afghanistan ARDA profile (all countries' profiles are based on WRD data).--Æo (talk) 21:03, 28 October 2022 (UTC)

And you have not provided any concrete proof of affiliation between the World Religion Database and the Christian Database other than a passing assumption in an essay. The one critical essay you provided is NOT sufficient to entirely deem ARDA as UNRELIABLE when it is backed by endless Universities, Brill Publishing, Center for Open Science and the US Religion Census itself. Foorgood (talk) 21:08, 28 October 2022 (UTC)

Dear Forgood,

The academic research reported above clearly demonstrates that the WRD and the WCD are basically the same (which is, nonetheless, not a secret) and advances criticism as to their statistics' reliability. Do you have any WP:COI that prompts you to be so supportive towards these organisations?

The fact that they are published by Brill or sponsored by certain institutions (some of which are themselves questionable, by the way) does not prove their reliability. Please read:

WP:RS: WP:SCHOLARSHIP: "POV and peer review in journals": Care should be taken with journals that exist mainly to promote a particular point of view. A claim of peer review is not an indication that the journal is respected, or that any meaningful peer review occurs.

Their connection to Evangelical Christian organisations make them WP:PARTISAN, WP:QUESTIONABLE and possibly WP:SPONSORED sources, certainly to be avoided in articles about religion statistics, where only data produced by statisticians (better if state statistical offices) should be presented.--Æo (talk) 21:39, 28 October 2022 (UTC)

ARDA is a #1 reliable source - You have no concrete evidence that the World Religion Database and Christian Database are affiliated based of one assumption in a critical essay to decide that the World Religion Database is unreliable. Foorgood (talk) 21:44, 28 October 2022 (UTC)

In fact, while you have one measly essay that criticizes the Religion Database, here are multiple that call ARDA and the World Religion Database "Reliable", including the Oxford handbook and Cambridge University: 1, 2, 3, 4. Foorgood (talk) 22:31, 28 October 2022 (UTC)

Dear Foorgood,

Do not call academic publications you don't like "measly". Regarding your links: #1 is just a presentation of the ARDA project, it doesn't seem to contain any critical remark (either negative or positive) about its quality, and is produced by a scholar of the Pennsylvania State University (ARDA sponsor); #2 merely lists the ARDA amongst other datasets about religion, once again without any critical remark about its quality (it's just a list of resources of a certain type); #3 is a mere citation of the ARDA in a list of other citations, once again without any critical remark about it; #4 is not an academic book. These are not scholarly works making assessments as to ARDA'a quality. Also note that they were published in 2008, 2011 and 2018, thus before the 2020 overhaul, when ARDA changed all its datasets aligning them with the WRD/WCD.--Æo (talk) 23:08, 28 October 2022 (UTC)

P.S., e.g.: compare ARDA projections about Australia to the Australian 2021 Census (ARDA overestimates Christianity by 14%); ARDA projections about Canada to the Canadian 2021 Census (ARDA overestimates Christianity by 10%). They are completely wrong, for every single country.--Æo (talk) 23:14, 28 October 2022 (UTC)

5 is Rowan & Littlefield a top academic source while this source from Wipf & Stock another top publisher who says it's reliable 6. Foorgood (talk) 23:17, 28 October 2022 (UTC)

Rowan & Littlefield is a generalist publisher, and in any case the book you linked does not contain any specific reference to ARDA. Regarding #6 (F. Lionel Young, III, World Christianity and the Unfinished Task: A Very Short Introduction, Wipf and Stock, 2020), have you read carefully what the pages you cited say? I cite:

Barrett's research has continued under the auspices of an organization established in 2001 named the Center for the Study of Global Christianity, now situated on the campus of Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. The center's co-director, Todd Johnson, began working with Barrett in 1989, and collaborates with his colleague on several projects, including the 2001 edition of the WEC. Building on Barrett's groundbreaking work, the center launched the World Christian Database and the World Religion Database.

Isn't this enough to demonstrate that the Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary is behind all of this? The entire chapter from which I have taken the excerpt is also dedicated to biased Protestant missionary sources, and the entire book to a Protestant missionary project and view. I think we can conclude this discussion here.--Æo (talk) 23:32, 28 October 2022 (UTC)

I began a discussion in the Reliable Sources notice board, join me there.Foorgood (talk) 23:45, 28 October 2022 (UTC)

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• Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 395#Association of Religion Data Archives and World Religion Database (Gordon-Conwell's WRD/WCD/WCE+ARDA & Pew-Templeton's GRF) — permanent link; deprecation RfC — RfC permanent link — RfC closing summary:

There is no consensus to deprecate these sources. That said, rough consensus did develop to use them with in-text attribution and to prefer the use of stronger sources.

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Closing

Especially as you previously wrote Ramos1990, I agree about an uninvolved closure.[2], Ramos1990's revert of your close was quite reasonable. I am also surprised you included such an arguably tendentious statement as It is clear from the discussion that the sources in question should never be used in place of data from censuses and statistical organisations, should be treated with a grain of salt and never accepted at face value. If you hope to refer to such a conclusion in future discussions, you need it to be the conclusion of an uninvolved closer, not your own. You might do well to strike your description of Ramos1990's revert as "rash".

JzG used to be very hard-working but is not at all as active nowadays, so you might need to post a request at Wikipedia:Closure requests. NebY (talk) 23:59, 12 January 2023 (UTC)

Hello NebY. A request has already been posted at Wikipedia:Closure requests. Regarding my comment "Ramos1990, I agree about an uninvolved closure", it did not refer to the RfC but to the discussion thereabove; note that we kept the two separate, and that the RfC had not been started yet. Regarding "rash", English is not my mother tongue and if this word has inappropriate acceptations it was not my intention to be inappropriate: by it I wanted to mean "hasty", "hurried", "precipitous". Regarding the statement "it is clear from the discussion that the sources in question should never be used in place of data from censuses and statistical organisations, should be treated with a grain of salt and never accepted at face value", it seems to be the common denominator of many of the comments, and the main outcome of the previous discussion thereabove.--Æo (talk) 00:24, 13 January 2023 (UTC)

"Rash" has strong connotations of foolishness. It was not foolish to revert a close that consisted of assessment and judgment by an involved editor, and you have no justification for asserting that that revert was not carefully considered. NebY (talk) 10:18, 13 January 2023 (UTC)

My closure and not thinking it required a formal closure (Wikipedia:Closure requests) was certainly WP:BOLD, but I trusted my ability to summarise. I asked JzG's review to have a completely third-party confirmation and/or correction. I think this is correct. Æo (talk) 12:07, 13 January 2023 (UTC)

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Why does the Slavic Native Faith use swastikas so much?

In seemingly half the images related to Slavic Native Faith such as File:Sword of Ory (Ary), Kandybaite Vedism.svg there are Swastikas. Why is that? Was it a common symbol they historically used in pre Christian times or is it political? Immanuelle ❤️💚💙 (talk to the cutest Wikipedian) 18:39, 12 March 2023 (UTC)

@Immanuelle: To put it briefly, it represents God in their doctrines, just like in Hinduism and in Chinese religions. Its meaning is therefore primarily theological, but it could take on a political sense in some fringes of the movement. Also consider that Rodnovery is not a single religion but a movement comprising various beliefs, groups and doctrines. Æo (talk) 18:49, 12 March 2023 (UTC)

@Æo what's the historical reason why they use the symbol? Why not a different symbol? Immanuelle ❤️💚💙 (talk to the cutest Wikipedian) 19:00, 12 March 2023 (UTC)

@Immanuelle: To put it simply, Rodnovers consider it as an Indo-European symbol whose origins lie in Eurasia, likely in Russia (it is ascertained that the Indo-Europeans originated somewhere in Russia), and Rodnovers identify themselves as the directest heirs of the Indo-Europeans. Consider, however, that the swastika is only one among the symbols used within the movement, and that the main symbol of the movement is rather the kolovrat (which is a swastika symbol but not of the four-pronged right-angled type). Æo (talk) 19:13, 12 March 2023 (UTC)

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Your edits on Religion in Bulgaria

Hi I noticed your edits you reduced the population of Christians and Muslims in bulgaria and increased the irreligion section or those who left the option unanswered I can't read bulgarian so did the sources you used reported different figures because the ones reported in english like these two about the 2021 census in bulgaria about religion report different figures

https://sofiaglobe.com/2022/11/24/census-2021-close-to-72-of-bulgarians-say-they-are-christians/

https://www.state.gov/reports/2022-report-on-international-religious-freedom/bulgaria/

I have fixed the figures given but could you clarify just in case I was in the wrong?

Also the religion by ethnicity seems to be conflicted with this source https://m.novinite.com/articles/217761/71.5+are+the+Christians+in+Bulgaria but here the figures dont add up but I have changed the figures in the religion in bulgaria in the ethnicity section but the numbers dont add so if you can check them out and confirm from the bulgarian language sources properly.

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Hello Barbardo,

The outcomes as presented in those linked press articles are not the complete data from the census. The percentage of the population who did not answer to the question must be taken into account in the total figures. This is what the census itself (in Bulgaria as well as in other countries) does. We must not assume that the unanswering population had the same proportions of religious and non-religious as the population who answered to the question. The data about religion by ethnicity as presented on novinite.com have the same problem: they are not complete, and specifically that article omitted either one or the other of the groups of unaffiliated and unanswering people (the census had three options for expressing unaffiliation, namely "do not define", "can not define" and "would not define", plus the option not to answer at all).

Howbeit, this issue was already discussed here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Religion_in_Bulgaria#2021_census Æo (talk) 15:40, 28 November 2023 (UTC)

Ok I will reply there Barbardo (talk) 15:55, 28 November 2023 (UTC)

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Hello Protalina. I checked your edits and they are very good. Go on with the same methodology! Please use the template {{sfn}} for more straightforward citations. I also agree with your rewording suggestion for that paragraph. Best, Æo (talk) 16:19, 16 March 2024 (UTC)

Hello Æo, thank you for the feedback! Noted and understood re using {{sfn}} template. Will go ahead on rewording that paragraph. Best, Protalina (talk) 18:21, 16 March 2024 (UTC)

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